[ Editor’s Note: The possibility that
we are seeing an attempt that a Mideast NATO, of sorts, is testing the waters
as a major lever against the two traditional Mideast powers. As the US has
shown in the Ukraine crisis, what is not politically kosher for NATO to do, it
can do itself or in conjunction with other selected members.

The layering that uses the
world bodies as screens effectively eliminates the public from having a input
in a decision-making process; it is so effective that one could easily argue
that the system was constructed to be able to exactly do this. This is why I
coined the phrase “pretend-a-democracies” for the West — the shoe fits.

As Gordon covers below, the
size of the combined militaries of Turkey, the Saudis and other Gulf States,
both air power and armor is bigger than NATO, but with one big difference. It
is there. No huge air and sea transport is needed play the card.

Sure, a major conventional
war would not necessarily be the goal for this group. But it is feasible they
have decided to threaten such, as they watch their plans to carve up both
Syria and Iraq going up in smoke due to the Syrian coalition effectiveness.

We can see that Erdogan’s
flooding Europe with refugees was the opening shot of this move, and one we
were all astonished to see Merkel immediately jump on board with; followed by
the total “it’s none of our business” attitude, where the weak underbelly of
Greece and the Balkans were the chosen route. It had all the fingerprints of a
planned, major military operation. And then someone pulled the trigger on the
Paris attack, with no one asking at the time “why now?”

So we are in a dangerous
game of high stakes poker as to who is bluffing and who is not, and what cards
do the player really hold. To watch this happening so early in 2016 is
direct evidence of what Putin described in his year end press conference… how
the West has been tearing down all the conflict resolution mechanisms that have
been painstakingly built during the post-Soviet period.

Someone in the West viewed
conflict resolution as a roadblock for what they wanted to do. And the number
one suspects of course, due to their well-known emergence of power during this
time were the NeoCons.

They brought us the
destabilizing gift of a new US “defense” doctrine, where preemptive strikes
could be carried out against any country that the US deemed “could” become a
threat “at some point in the future”. In the past, we had the rational view of preventing
an “eminent threat”.

If there were any major
opposition to this defense policy change, it sure escaped me. If anyone knows
of any, please share it with us in the comments… Jim W. Dean ]

Turkey and Saudi Arabia
have made their plans clear to an amazed world — a new Wahhabist empire, an
“Islamic State,” not the one the puppet front organization ISIS is running, but
a real one with up to a million men in uniform, over three thousand modern combat
aircraft and nuclear weapons.

Syria will fall to them, as
will Iraq. They will take Jordan in a snap, crushing it from the north and
south. The Gulf States are already onboard, willing members while Egypt may
hold out a while, with Israel, as long as it survives, holding one flank while
Libya is already “gone,” part of the secret Erdogan caliphate.

Erbil strongman dictator,
Barzani has already split Iraq, a “done deal.” He has joined Turkey against not
only the PKK but Turkish Kurds who are being wiped off the map and his Syrian
brothers, who are being slaughtered to his silence, and of course the
government in Baghdad that pays his salary.

Afghanistan is under
attack, with ISIS recruiters and Saudi cash making significant inroads, not
only there but in nuclear Pakistan as well. To his north, Ukraine is fully
onboard, ready to declare war on Russia any day, while Bulgaria and Romania
remain silent partners, ready to knife both Russia and NATO in the back.

Georgia is a de facto
client state of Turkey’s, a path for arms smuggling, the new “other silk road,”
from Ukraine, by plane or Black Sea trawler from Odessa, into Georgia and
through Turkey into Syria and Iraq, into the hands of Erdogan’s terror armies.

_________

Israel

Erdogan and Netanyahu

Israel woke up first and
dumped Erdoganlike a “hot potato.” He had them fooled the way he
had Europe fooled. He even had Russia and Iran going for years with promises of
trade deals and gas pipelines. Now it is clear, this is a madman bent on world
domination, nothing less.

There was a time when
Israel saw Syria as a threat, a modern nation allied first to the Soviet Union,
then the Russian Federation, a modern army and air force, capable of perhaps
not matching the Israeli juggernaut, but a force to be contended with.

That Syria is in ruins
today, the army stretched, winning against a “sea of foes” for sure, but
unlikely to ever be a threat against Israel again, which is why Tel Aviv
supported both insurgents and terrorists.

Today, Assad’s Syria is all
that standsbetween Israel and an Islamic Empire, not the
“Islamic State” of ISIS, but a Wahhabist monstrosity capable of wiping Israel
off the map with ease, American backing and a nuclear arsenal notwithstanding
and Israel now knows this all too well.

Israel will look back on
its former days of planning a preemptive strike on Iran or pouring armies into
Syria across the Golan Heights as its “crazy days”.

_________

War Has Begun

A war is already going on. Turkey has invaded Syria,
ISIS is a Turkish army, Muslim Brotherhood recruits, mercenaries, underwritten
by the Saudis and Qatar, aided by rogue Western intelligence agencies, the CIA
and MI6.

Turkey has bombed Kurds
inside Syria, not the claimed “rebel” PKK, but the US allies of the YPG, and is
now shelling them in violation of a UNSC memorandum.

Turkey has invaded Iraq,
sending in 1500 troops who now protect Mosul, the ISIS capitol. Their base sits
on the strategic route for ISIS oil theft, protecting it until it enters the
breakaway “Barzani Caliphate.”

Turkey is in a shooting war
with Russia, kept in check only by a Russian naval force in the Mediterranean and
Caspian Seas and by massive Russian military exercises north of Turkey’s
borders.

Turkey is actively
threatening Greece with continual air space violations and aggressive claims
made against Greek islands in the Aegean.

Turkey is preparing for war
with Iran, ethnically cleansing their common border of Kurds and through
building a military base in Qatar to launch operations from.

_________

The Burned Down Friends of
Erdogan

Erdogan family runs
organized crime in Europe

Putin was Erdogan’s friend, with a broad commercial
relationship theoretically cementing their relationship. Assad had always known
Erdogan for who he is, as had Iraq.

Netanyahu was surprised
also, believing out of his usual hubris that Israel’s nuclear arsenal and US
backing, now not so solid, would guarantee them ascendency in any relationship.

Obama and Erdogan are
totally on the outs. Following Obama, as is not always the case, is the
military leadership of NATO.

America and NATO have, over
the past couple of days, awakened to a “new cold war” of rhetoric and petty
Baltic State buildups, all empty posturing based on manipulation by Erdogan and
his powerful backers in Washington, which include all but the Greek factions of organized crime.

Erdogan has destroyed
Germany’s Merkel, whose popularity is at an all-time low.

_________

The Two-Edged Refugee War

Erdogan has been very
successful in the refugee war. It isn’t just the upheaval that has left the
European Union in ruin. He has also filled Europe with terror cells, modeled on
the Gladio model NATO had inflicted on itself during the last century in
response to the Soviet threat.

Europe is now honeycombed
with weapons caches and terror cells while attempts to resist these efforts are
derailed via claims of racist bigotry. This is where Erdogan was really clever.
His terror armies, ISIS, the FSA, al Nusra, can round up tens of thousands of
Syrians and herd them to the Turkish border.

At will, Erdogan’s huge
army trucks them to the coast and loads them onto boats, drowning some, pouring
the rest into Greece, a nation he hates almost as much as he hates Russia and
the Kurdish people.

Political attempts inside Europe
to stem this tide are represented as neo-fascist. Moreover, funds earmarked for
counter-terrorism in the EU are not only sadly inadequate to deal with the
thousand fold increase in threat level but are bled off for refugee services.

Europe now lies prostrate
at Erdogan’s feet.

_________

This Is a Nuclear War, No
Question About It

The combined military of
Turkey,
the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia, the New Islamic State, or better stated, the
“Islamic Empire,” can field up to 3500 modern main battle tanks, over 3000
generation 3+ combat aircraft, the most advanced air and missile defenses
American could provide, and put over 1 million men in the field.

When you look at what they
have done with ISIS, al Nusra, the FSA and the “sister” organizations, probably
fewer than 80,000 fighters, the political and economic damage, the human
disaster, the suffering they have caused, and you look at what they can do, you
realize that this was always intended to be a nuclear war.

Recent mainstream military
publications have reported that both Turkey and Saudi Arabia are ready to test
nuclear weapons. Israel reported that the Gulf States had recently approached
them about buying nuclear weapons.

Now that we are facing a
real nuclear warat the hands of nation after nation that had been previously
“above suspicion,” can we wonder why all the fuss about Iran?

Former IAEA inspector and
VT editor, Jeff Smith, says that the UN became aware of Saudi Arabia’s nuclear
capability as early as 1982. Smith also reports that in May 2015, Saudi Arabia
attacked Yemen with a banned neutron-type nuclear weapon, the evidence is
conclusive.

What is important, however,
is to note that over 18,000 Turkish troops are on the Syrian border now, with
another 250,000 available to move into both Syria and Iraq within 30 days, all
fully mobilized. From the south, some already in Jordan on “training
exercises,” Saudi Arabia has armored forces ready to move into Syria while more
are staged to attack Iraq.

The Kurdish Pergmersha
would join its Turkish allies against the Baghdad government, fighting
alongside ISIS units they have been fighting against, in a reversal that may
have seemed impossible a year ago but is much easier to accept now.

The threat isn’t just
Turkey against Iraq or Turkey against Syria. It isn’t simply Russia lashing out
at Turkey.

The threat is the creation
of an autocratic terror state run by a madman, a state of stonings and head
choppings, a state of slavery and conquest, a state built on the Wahhabist
extremism that created the model for ISIS but 30 times larger, encompassing
North Africa, the Balkans to the Indus River.

Have we seen this all
before?

Turkish air force

When Russia announced it
would wipe out any Saudi or Turkish forces moving into Syria, that looked like a
nuclear threat. To counter it, Turkey was prepared to steal the NATO nuclear
arsenal at Incirlik Air Base, 84 thermonuclear weapons.

This plan had long been
underway with Saudi specialists trained in defeating the weapon safeguards based
on stolen nuclear secrets secured from Israel, something Israel deeply regrets
now, we believe.

Israel, also out of short
sightedness, had upgraded Turkish F16s for service as nuclear bombers to use
against Russia, perhaps not to “use” as such, but to blackmail Russia into
backing down when Syria was overrun.

Of course, when Syria was
to be overrun, the puppet state of “Barzani-land” would be set up, a virtual
“Gaza” for surviving Kurds, while the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia moved into
Iraq in an ironic reversal of Saddam’s 1990 move.

Tell me I am wrong.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat
veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for
decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a
senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online
magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”

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At midday on Friday 5 February, 2016 Julian Assange, John Jones QC, Melinda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzon will be speaking at a press conference at the Frontline Club on the decision made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the Assange case.